May 2010 - AT-Network - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

Commuter Challenge kickoff - 10 am, Tues May 18th, MB Hydro
by Beth McKechnie 17 May '10

17 May '10

Looking for an excuse to be outdoors in the sunshine tomorrow morning? Come out for the 2010 Commuter Challenge kick-off ! 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 18th Manitoba Hydro (360 Portage Ave) Bring your bike, grab a bus or walk on over to join us. Hope to see you there! cheers, Beth * * * * * Green Commuting Initiatives Workplace TDM Coordinator Resource Conservation Manitoba Tel: (204) 925-3772 www.resourceconservation.mb.ca

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in motion @ the Library - Getting "in motion" Safely!
by Deanna Betteridge 14 May '10

14 May '10

Hello, Can you please assist Winnipeg in motion by publicizing the following FREE event and forwarding this information on to your networks? Thanks, Deanna ******************************************************** Do you have an injury that is keeping you from being "in motion"? Are you afraid of injuring yourself while exercising? Or are you interested in just staying safe while being active this summer? Join Winnipeg in motion and athletic therapist Christine Johnston of Balance Chiropractic & Wellness Centre to find out how to prevent injuries and to learn how to exercise safely. Christine will walk you through a sample warm-up, cool-down and stretching routine; when to apply pressure, ice or heat and when to seek professional advice. What: Getting "in motion" Safely! When: Friday, May 21, 2010 Time: 12:10 - 12:50pm Where: Carol Shields Auditorium, 2nd Floor Millennium Library (251 Donald) Admission is FREE, all are welcome and registration is NOT required. For more information please contact Winnipeg in motion at 940-3648 or visit www.winnipeginmotion.ca <http://www.winnipeginmotion.ca/> . Getting "in motion" Safely! is part of "in motion Fridays", a series of monthly workshops that promote physical activity for better health. The in motion @ the Library series is sponsored by Winnipeg in motion and the Millennium Library. For a complete list of workshops, visit http://www.winnipeginmotion.ca/resources/in_motion_library <http://www.winnipeginmotion.ca/resources/in_motion_library> . ******************************************************** See you at the library! Cheers, Deanna ** Sign-up to receive Winnipeg in motion email updates http://www.winnipeginmotion.ca/signup/form.php ** ------------------------------------------------------------- Deanna Betteridge, BESS, M.Sc. in motion Coordinator 2 - 189 Evanson St. Winnipeg, Manitoba R3G 0N9 204-940-3264 (w) 204-232-3297 (c) 204-940-8409 (f) E-mail: dbetteridge(a)wrha.mb.ca Web site: www.winnipeginmotion.ca This email and/or any documents in this transmission is intended for the addressee(s) only and may contain legally privileged or confidential information. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, copying or dissemination is strictly prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and return the original. Ce courriel et tout document dans cette transmission est destiné à la personne ou aux personnes à qui il est adressé. Il peut contenir des informations privilégiées ou confidentielles. Toute utilisation, divulgation, distribution, copie, ou diffusion non autorisée est strictement défendue. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire de ce message, veuillez en informer l'expéditeur immédiatement et lui remettre l'original.

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FW: SOS Celebrates International Trails Day June 5
by Stacy Matwick 14 May '10

14 May '10

FYI Hope the attachment comes through. If not you can find the map and brochure here http://www.winnipegtrails.ca/2010/05/11/bois-des-esprits-trail-grand-openin… Cheers Stacy Matwick Information Centre International Institute for Sustainable Development 161 Portage Ave. E., 6th floor Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 0Y4 Voice: (204)958-7755 Fax: (204)958-7710 Email: smatwick(a)iisd.ca Library website: http://www.iisd.org/ic/ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read" Groucho Marx "Life is like a bicycle, to keep your balance your must keep on moving" Albert Einstein From: Bev Sawchuk [mailto:bevsawchuk@shaw.ca] Sent: May-13-10 7:34 PM To: 'James, Alena (WSD)'; 'Craig and Connie'; 'Derhak Semeniuk, Bonnie'; 'Gordon Goldsborough'; Henry David (Hank) Venema; 'Britt Hilton'; 'Kisti Thomas'; 'kim laird'; 'Mike Grandmaison'; 'Natalie Gerardy'; 'Bohemier, Rene'; 'The Ladybug Foundation'; 'Vicki Burns'; kgeisel(a)mtsm.blackberry.com; 'Pike, Susan' Subject: 11 a.m. June 5 - SOS Celebrates International Trails Day Thought you might be interested in attending this event on June 5. Bring your family and friends to visit Winnipeg's newest and most unique City Park! Regards, Bev * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * On Saturday, June 5, Save Our Seine is inviting the public for a fun time on the trails of the the Seine River Greenway's forest Bois-des-Esprit - Winnipeg's largest continguous and river bottom and upland forest. This is the second year that Save Our Seine, in conjunction with the Winnipeg Trails Association, will be hosting an International Trails Day event to showcase Winnipeg's Bois-des-Esprit, a 117 acre forest located in South St. Vital adjacent to the new Royalwood subdivision. The event is aimed particularly at residents of the neighbourhoods located near the Bois-des-esprit, including Royalwood, St. Anne's Road and Meadowood. Highlights of this year's event will include: - opening of the new 2km long gravel trail that extends the length of the forest from the Royalwood Bridge to John Bruce Road. - guided tours of the forest along the new trail. Save Our Seine tour guides will provide information about the history and natural features of the forest, including the five ecosystems and diversity of wildlife that occurs in the forest. - Bois-des-Esprits contains the largest collection of forest sculptures in Winnipeg. Participants in the guided tours will get to see the 7 wood spirit and owl sculptures that Murray Watson carved into dead tree stumps this winter and spring fall. They will also visit Woody, the 3 metre high carved tree spirit that guards the forest. Carvers of the forest scuptures will also be on hand to talk about their carvings. - A free lunch will be served while a Metis fiddler entertains. Costumed Metis interpreters from Union Natinale Metisse St-Joseph du Manitoba will tell stories about the history of the area and Wildlife Haven Rehabilitiation Centre will have one it ambasssodors, a live raptor on hand. The event takes place on Saturday, June 5 at 11 a.m. Visitors are asked to gather at the greenspace east of the Royalwood Bridge, next to Bois-des-Esprit. Parking is available at Morrow Gospel Church. The event will last about 2 hours. A brochure about the event including a map of Bois-des-Esprit is attached.

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Vancouver pushes $25-million plan for more bike lanes
by Beth McKechnie 12 May '10

12 May '10

Vancouver pushes $25-million plan for more bike lanes Council to consider 55 km of new routes in 10-year master cycling plan By Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun May 6, 2010 http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Vancouver+pushes+million+plan+more+bike+… Vancouver is proposing to invest $25 million in additional bike paths over the next two years as part of the city's ambitious goal to become the world's greenest city by 2020. A city report on a proposed 10-year Cycling Master Plan, which will go to council Thursday, calls for another 55 kilometres of bike lanes and routes around Vancouver. This includes the long-awaited Comox Helmcken Greenway project to connect the seawall, the West End and downtown Vancouver to the Central Valley Greenway, which stretches all the way to New Westminster. The additional bike paths and routes would give Vancouver a 415-kilometre bike-route network and help the city reach its target of having 10 per cent of all urban trips in Vancouver made by bicycle by 2020, Mayor Gregor Robertson said. Right now, only 3.7 per cent of trips, or 60,000 trips a day, in Vancouver are made by bike on average, although some neighbourhoods boast up to 12 per cent. "This will definitely get more people on bikes," Robertson said. "Most data shows that cities don't go much beyond five per cent until they create separated bike lanes. That's about the percentage of people that will take their chances in traffic." The report, which will initiate the planning process for the new plan, recommends that council on Thursday approve an immediate $1.25-million investment in the city's bike network for 2010 and 2011. This money would be used to draft a new 10-Year Cycling Program Master Plan, develop a comprehensive cycling monitoring program, add on-street bicycle parking and do spot improvements - such as more traffic lights - on existing bikeways to address safety concerns. It also recommends council approve plans in principle to develop a new cross-town bikeway along 45th Avenue from Balaclava to Nanaimo, the North Arm Trail Greenway, generally along 59th Avenue from West Boulevard to Vivian, and create better cycling connections to the Canada Line Bridge and the Cambie Street bike lanes, which carry traffic over the Fraser River to Richmond. The proposals are in addition to plans underway to complete separated bike lanes from the Burrard Bridge to the Dunsmuir Viaduct across the downtown core. The total investment would be $25 million, which is roughly 30 per cent of the city's $90 million streets-and-roads budget for the same period, city engineer Jerry Dobrovolny said. The new cycling plan will form a component of a new transportation plan, to be initiated later this year. The money for the cycling paths and improvements has already been set aside in various budgets, including $3.7 million in the city's developer "greenlink" fund, which is for pedestrian and cycling infrastructure. Another $3 million earmarked for major arterial roads will also go toward projects that benefit cyclists, while the city has another $8.3 million that isn't allocated to any specific projects. Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs said about 12 per cent of the funding would be used for new infrastructure, while the rest would maintain or upgrade cycling paths. He noted many of the projects have been waiting for years to be built. Vancouver's bicycle network comprises five primary types of facility: off-street paths, local street bikeways, painted bike lanes, painted shared-use lanes and separated bike lanes. Robertson said one of the considerations would be to look at separated-bike-lane trials on major arterial routes such as Main or Commercial and on residential-street bike lanes. "We have a really good bike infrastructure but it really needs a catch-up in investment," he said. "For many years all city investment went into roads and sidewalks and the city ignored safe bike options." Margaret Mahan, executive director of Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST), welcomed the city's report. "It marks the first time we've seen that kind of significant commitment to a future that is going to be greener," she said. "The single thing most people say keeps them from riding is the perceived safety issue. "[They'll get on their bikes] when they're not afraid of being hit by two tonnes of moving vehicle." If approved by council, a public consultation process would probably start immediately and take about a year. ksinoski(a)vancouversun.com

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Commuter Cycling course - May 18 & 20
by Beth McKechnie 11 May '10

11 May '10

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Fw: Dana Strapazzon Retirement Celebration
by Beth McKechnie 11 May '10

11 May '10

----- Original Message ----- From: Honey, Brian Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 2:04 PM Subject: Dana Strapazzon Retirement Celebration After years of hard work and dedication, it's time to take a permanent vacation. No more meetings or pages to fax, it's time to kick back and just relax. We welcome you in celebrating a retirement party honoring Dana Strapazzon on Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010. Please join us to share happy memories and wishing her well, as she starts her long and well deserved rest. This event is not a surprise, Dana is well aware of all plans. Please see attached poster. The celebration will occur at Silverado's Nightclub located at 2100 McPhillips Street from 5:00pm - 8:00pm. Tickets are $12 and will include a gift and food. Tickets will be available by the middle of next week. You may purchase tickets from any of the following: Brian Honey - 990-6636 or contact bhoney(a)winnipeg.ca (7th floor 395 Main) Derrick Stamm - 470-9791 or contact dstamm(a)winnipeg.ca (6th floor 395 Main) Karen Glugosh - 612-2065 or contact kglugosh(a)winnipeg.ca (6th floor 395 Main) Gail Katz - 986-7760 or contact gkatz(a)winnipeg.ca (8th floor 395 Main) Greg Ferguson - 986-4355 or contact gferguson(a)winnipeg.ca (6th floor 395 Main) Bill Towers - 986-3214 or contact btowers(a)winnipeg.ca (8th floor 395 Main) Jeff Honey - 986-8366 or contact jhoney(a)winnipeg.ca (430 Langside, Magnus Eliason Rec Center) Louie Strapazzon - 339-5105 or contact luidana(a)shaw.ca (Dana's husband) Please note Silverado's has indicated they will not be selling tickets at the door, so please purchase your ticket in advance. Hope to see you at the party, Brian Honey bhoney(a)winnipeg.ca

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Something timely for Friday
by Stacy Matwick 07 May '10

07 May '10

"Little Green Man" http://www.markfiore.com/ Safe for work. I especially liked the term 'lizard juice'. Enjoy Stacy Matwick Information Centre International Institute for Sustainable Development 161 Portage Ave. E., 6th floor Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 0Y4 Voice: (204)958-7755 Fax: (204)958-7710 Email: smatwick(a)iisd.ca Library website: http://www.iisd.org/ic/ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read" Groucho Marx "Life is like a bicycle, to keep your balance your must keep on moving" Albert Einstein

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